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Long-Term Temporal Analysis of the Human Fecal Microbiota Revealed a Stable Core of Dominant Bacterial Species

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Martínez, Inés, Muller, Catherine E., Walter, Jens·2013·PLoS ONE

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Next-generation sequencing has greatly contributed to an improved ecological understanding of the human gut microbiota. Nevertheless, questions remain regarding the characteristics of this ecosystem and the ecological processes that shape it, and controversy has arisen regarding the stability of the bacterial populations and the existence of a temporal core. In this study, we have characterized the fecal microbial communities of three human individuals over a one-year period by 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA tags in order to investigate the temporal characteristics of the bacterial communities. The findings revealed a temporal core of 33 to 40 species-level Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) within subjects. Although these OTUs accounted only for around 12% of the total OTUs detected, they added up to >75% of the total sequences obtained for each individual. In order to determine the capacity of the sequencing and bioinformatic approaches applied during this study to accurately determine the proportion of a core microbiota, we analyzed the fecal microbiota of nine mice with a defined three-member community. This experiment revealed that the sequencing approach inflated the amount of rare OTUs, which introduced a significant degree of artificial variation across samples, and hence reduced the apparent fraction of shared OTUs. However, when assessing the data quantitatively by focusing on dominant lineages, the sequencing approaches deliver an accurate representation of the community. In conclusion, this study revealed that the human fecal microbiota is dominated by around 40 species that maintain persistent populations over the duration of one year. The findings allow conclusions about the ecological factors that shape the community and support the concept of a homeostatic ecosystem controlled largely by deterministic processes. Our analysis of a three-member community revealed that methodological artifacts of OTU-based approaches complicate core calculations, and these limitations have to be considered in the interpretation of microbiome studies.

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Figure 1 Experimental design. 33 (two subjects) and 32 (one subject) samples were collected in a 56-week time period from human subjects that participated in two dietary trials testing the effect of resistant starches and GOS on the fecal microbiota [31], [32]. Fecal samples were collected weekly throughout both trials (17 in Trial 1 and 16 in trial 2), and the two trials were interspaced by a 24-week period without sampling.CC BY · PubMed Central

Figure 2 Individual fecal temporal core. Fraction of species-level OTUs shared across samples of the total OTUs within these samples (blue line) and the proportion that these OTUs represent of the total sequences obtained (red line) for subjects 1, 2, and 3 (A,B,C). Proportion of total sequence reads obtained of OTUs shared across sampled within the different phyla (Firmicutes: grey, Bacteroidetes: green, Actinobacteria: purple, Verrucomicrobia: orange, Proteobacteria: light blue) (D,E,F).CC BY · PubMed Central

Figure 3 Abundance of the dominant bacterial OTUs in the fecal samples of subjects throughout the study. All OTUs that had an average proportion >0.2% were included. Representative sequences of OTUs were used to construct the Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree, which is colored-coded according to phylum: Bacteroidetes (orange), Actinobacteria (magenta), Firmicutes (blue), Verrucomicrobia (green). The abundance of each phylotype is indicated by grayscale. The OTU numbers are presented to the right of the heatmap.CC BY · PubMed Central

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Authors: Martínez, I., Muller, C. E., & Walter, J.
Affiliations: University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
Corresponding author: Walter, Jens
ORCID: Walter, Jens
Venue: PLoS ONE
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published: 2013-07-16
Volume: 8
Issue: 7
Pages: e69621
ISSN: 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069621
PMC: PMC3712949
OpenAlex: W1997884922
Cited by: 181
References: 62
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 4
FWCI: 8.67
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
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Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
Keywords: human gut microbiome, fecal microbiota, temporal stability, core microbiome, operational taxonomic units, sequencing artifacts, rare OTUs, 16S rRNA, deterministic community assembly
MeSH terms: Adult, Bacteria, Feces, Female, Humans, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Young Adult

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